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Originally Posted by TheatreKid
Hi Talanic,
There are a couple of conditions that include both bipolar and psychosis. There's bipolar with psychotic features, where psychosis occurs during bipolar episodes, and there's schizoaffective bipolar type, which is where symptoms of bipolar occur with psychosis outside of bipolar episodes.
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I find it mainly happens during bipolar moments. Like in deep depression or during mania. There has been times where I hear voices when I'm not really depressed or in mania. But the big things mainly happen when in one of those stages. I feel really bad whenever thoughts of violet acts on people take over my mind. I start to wonder if I'm a good person or not. But I can't help it. Recently I've been a little unstable despite my meds working for the most part for the past few years. The only thing I've found that kind of helps is just watch a bunch of TV to distract myself. But once I stop it all comes rushing back. It makes me scared to go to bed just because I'm laying there with nothing to distract my mind from everything. So I end up staying up tell 5 in the morning tell I'm so tired I can hardly function in the hopes that I will fall asleep faster. It feels good though to know there's people out there with the same diagnosis.
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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
I get very homicidal thoughts when I'm manic but I don't realise they'll injure anyone. So I will completely freely talk about them. When I do realize it will hurt someone is when I'm fantasising what the scene will look like. I write it down because I can vividly see it I can describe it in great detail.
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Miguel'smom, that's pretty much exactly what I experience. Do you have any advice for when those moments happen? Aside from writing them down?
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Originally Posted by grandmaof3
I have bipolar with psychosis. I hear voices and recently have started to see shadow people as well. This happens mainly when I'm manic. When I hear the voices and Im not sure if there is someone there speaking I look around the room and if I don't see anyone I know the voices are not real. I try to ignore them bur I do tend towards paranoia and ignoring them is hard. I usually end up taking some Haldol and that seems to get rid of the voices. Since I've been on Zyprexa I don't hear the voices often.
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I'm happy to hear Zyprexa seems to be helping with the voices. Ignoring voices is honestly really hard to do and I totally understand the feeling of looking around quite well.
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Schizoaffective Bipolar type and Panic disorder with agoraphobia-
Symbyax
Valium
Latuda
Lithium
